Leonard H. Lesko (born 1938) was Chairman of the Department of Egyptology at Brown University and held the Charles Edwin Wilbour Professorship.
In 1969, he received a Ph.D. in "Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations-Egyptology" at the University of Chicago.
Prior to joining the Brown faculty in 1982, he held various teaching positions at University of California-Berkeley.
He has also studied the Coffin Texts, the Book of the Dead and Deir el-Medina.
Along with his wife, Barbara Lesko, he edited A Dictionary of Late Egyptian.